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Sign compatibility

Leo and Libra

How the Sun in Leo and the Sun in Libra relate by element, modality and position, and what two traditions say about the pairing. It does not predict how two people get on.

  • Leo
  • Libra
Elements
Fire and air
Modalities
Fixed and cardinal
Angle between the signs
Sextile (60°), counted by sign

How common is each Sun sign

  • Sun in Leo8.78%of 2,000,000 simulated births, the most common of 12
  • Sun in Libra8.52%of 2,000,000 simulated births, 5th most common of 12

There is no simulated figure for the pair itself. These are the shares of each Sun sign on its own.

In plain words

  • Sun in Leo

    In Leo, the Sun expresses itself in a warm, open way.

  • Sun in Libra

    In Libra, the Sun expresses itself in a balanced, relationship-minded way.

Generic readingA generic description in the style of modern astrology, the same for everyone who has this placement. Not a prediction.

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What is being compared in Leo and Libra?

  1. What is compared

    Two Sun signs

    This page sets the Sun in Leo against the Sun in Libra: each has an element, a modality and a ruler. No tradition on this site claims to predict how two people get on.

  2. How the signs relate

    Sextile (60°)

    Fire (hot and dry) and air (hot and moist) share the quality hot. Fixed and cardinal: one sits mid-season, the other opens one. Leo and Libra are 2 signs apart, a sextile (60°) counted by sign. Hellenistic astrologers hold that signs in sextile see each other.

  3. How common it is

    No pair figure

    There is no simulated figure for the pair itself. These are the shares of each Sun sign on its own. Sun in Leo: 8.78% of simulated births, about 1 in 11; the most common of 12. Sun in Libra: 8.52% of simulated births, about 1 in 12; 5th most common of 12.

How do Leo and Libra relate?

Leo

Fixed fire

Leo is a positive (yang) sign: fire and air signs are positive, earth and water signs negative.

Libra

Cardinal air

Libra is a positive (yang) sign: fire and air signs are positive, earth and water signs negative.

Fire (hot and dry) and air (hot and moist) share the quality hot. Fixed and cardinal: one sits mid-season, the other opens one. Leo and Libra are 2 signs apart, a sextile (60°) counted by sign. Hellenistic astrologers hold that signs in sextile see each other.

How common is each of the two Sun signs?

How common is each Sun sign?

An even split of the 12 signsBars start at zero.Share of simulated births with the Sun in each of the 12 signs. Share of 2,000,000 simulated births (1950–2024), tropical zodiac.

When is the Sun in Leo and in Libra?

Sun in Leo, last pass
ended 23 Aug 2026
22 July 2026, 19:13 UTC to 23 August 2026, 02:18 UTC (about 31 days)
Sun in Leo, next pass
from 23 Jul 2027
23 July 2027, 01:04 UTC to 23 August 2027, 08:14 UTC (about 31 days)
Sun in Libra, now
since 23 Sept 2026
23 September 2026, 00:05 UTC to 23 October 2026, 09:37 UTC (about 30 days)
Sun in Libra, last pass
ended 23 Oct 2025
22 September 2025, 18:19 UTC to 23 October 2025, 03:50 UTC (about 30 days)
Sun in Libra, next pass
from 23 Sept 2027
23 September 2027, 06:01 UTC to 23 October 2027, 15:32 UTC (about 30 days)

Last, current and next passes

  1. Sun in Libra

    22 Sept 2025 → 23 Oct 2025 · about 30 days

    last pass

  2. Sun in Leo

    22 Jul 2026 → 23 Aug 2026 · about 31 days

    last pass

  3. Sun in LibraNow

    23 Sept 2026 → 23 Oct 2026 · about 30 days

    now

  4. Sun in Leo

    23 Jul 2027 → 23 Aug 2027 · about 31 days

    next pass

  5. Sun in Libra

    23 Sept 2027 → 23 Oct 2027 · about 30 days

    next pass

  • Each year the Sun is in Leo from about 22–24 July to 22–24 August (UTC dates, 1900–2050).
  • Each year the Sun is in Libra from about 22–24 September to 22–24 October (UTC dates, 1900–2050).

As of 16 October 2026, 13:56 UTC. Dates are UTC, tropical zodiac, read from the ephemeris's table of sign entries. This page refreshes hourly.

What do different traditions say about Leo and Libra?

AI-written text that an AI research review then checked against sources. No person has reviewed it; the notes and references behind each check are under its label.

Hellenistic

The astrology of the Greek-speaking Mediterranean from roughly the 1st century BCE to the 7th century CE, as recorded by authors such as Vettius Valens, Dorotheus and Ptolemy.

AI-written, checked by AI

1 Oct 2026

Leo and Libra are two signs apart, a sextile, which Hellenistic astrologers count as easy. Leo is a masculine, fixed fire sign and Libra a masculine, cardinal air sign, so the genders agree. The Sun rules Leo and Venus rules Libra, so no ruler is shared. The Sun is in fall in Libra, the sign opposite its exaltation in Aries, while Venus has no dignity in Leo. The two lords therefore meet unevenly across an easy configuration. Venus stays within about 47° of the Sun, so the two lords are never more than two signs apart in a chart. Stating the sextile for two people's signs is this page's extension of a one-chart doctrine.

Sources

  • Ptolemy, Tetrabiblos, Book I
  • Paulus Alexandrinus, Introductory Matters
  • Chris Brennan, Hellenistic Astrology: The Study of Fate and Fortune (2017)

What was checked

An AI research review checked this text against sources on 1 Oct 2026. No person has reviewed it.

Reviewer's notes

Aspects/aversion by sign (Ptolemy I.13, I.16), dignities, genders and modalities confirmed; the block already says it applies a one-chart doctrine to two people's signs as an extension, which is this page's choice and not an ancient claim.

Sources consulted

Modern psychological

The 20th-century Western approach shaped by Alan Leo, Dane Rudhyar and Liz Greene, drawing on Jungian psychology.

AI-written, checked by AI

1 Oct 2026

Leo and Libra are two signs apart, a sextile, pairing fire with air. Leo is fixed and Libra cardinal. Modern astrology commonly treats fire and air as compatible, since air feeds fire. Modern psychological astrology reads a sextile as a connection that responds to deliberate effort. It associates Libra with tact, balance and attention to others, and Leo with warmth and a clear identity. Venus rules Libra and the Sun rules Leo in the traditional scheme, and Hellenistic astrologers place the Sun's fall in Libra, opposite its exaltation in Aries. They read the sextile as a mild configuration of ease and weigh the planets and their rank by sign before drawing anything from the signs. The sign pair alone is a general description.

Sources

  • Liz Greene, Relating: An Astrological Guide to Living with Others on a Small Planet (1977)
  • Stephen Arroyo, Astrology, Psychology, and the Four Elements (1975)
  • Chris Brennan, Hellenistic Astrology: The Study of Fate and Fortune (2017)

What was checked

An AI research review checked this text against sources on 1 Oct 2026. No person has reviewed it.

Reviewer's notes

Verified: Libra is 2 signs from Leo (sextile), fixed fire with cardinal air; Venus rules Libra and the Sun's depression (fall) is Libra in Ptolemy. Hedged the fire-air claim and added facts to reach 110 words. The fire-air 'compatible' framing is confirmed only as a common modern view (secondary), not in Greene's text; the text now says 'modern astrology commonly treats'. Interpretive keywords are consistent with the sign keywords in the project reference data but were not checked against the books' own text; no claim is made about how a pair will fare.

Sources consulted

Where they differ

Hellenistic astrology reasons from technique: essential dignity, sect and configuration by sign. Modern psychological astrology reasons from element, modality and the planet's function. They start from different questions, so the same placement can read differently, and neither reading is the verdict. Both use the tropical zodiac here.

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